Ecclesiastes 8:7
for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
In Context
6For to every purpose there is time and manner. For the misery of man is great upon him;
Cross References
Esther 5:12And Haman said, Yea, Esther the queen let no man come in with the king to the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and to-morrow also I am invited to her with the king.
Proverbs 27:1Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day will bring forth.
Ecclesiastes 3:22And I have seen that there is nothing better than that man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion; for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
Ecclesiastes 9:1For all this I laid to my heart and [indeed] to investigate all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; man knoweth neither love nor hatred: all is before them.
Ecclesiastes 10:14And the fool multiplieth words: [yet] man knoweth not what shall be; and what shall be after him, who will tell him?
Matthew 24:50the lord of that bondman shall come in a day when he does not expect it, and in an hour he knows not of,
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 8:7-9
The Certainty of Death. 6 Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him. 7 For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be? 8 There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it. Solomon had said ( v. 5 ) that a wise man's heart discerns time and judgment, that is, a man's… Read the whole commentary →